When the Cape Argus/Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Tour comes to town, Cape Town becomes a sea of rotating movement. Phil Liggett’s voice is so synonymous with rolling wheels and buzzing machinery that it’s quite odd to meet him on a still day, way above a calm city centre.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has announced on that it might participate in the Treatment Action Campaign’s planned civil disobedience protest. The turnaround is significant after resistance to the campaign from ”conservative elements” in the federation, said insiders.
Text of Saddam Hussein’s address to the nation, broadcast on Thursday on Iraqi television shortly after the first US strikes against Baghdad, translated from Arabic by AFP.
A once-off wealth tax should be imposed to help compensate victims of apartheid, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) recommended on Friday.
Former president FW de Klerk has admitted that he knew the 1988 bombing of the SA Council of Churches’ Johannesburg headquarters had been authorised by the apartheid government.
The plaintive wail of the air raid siren sliced through the evening at around 9pm, announcing the moment Iraqis had awaited with dread: the definitive start of the war.
As US and British forces swarmed into Iraq on Friday, reports from the front said that Iraqi forces had set fire to oil wells in the southern parts of the country.
The African National Congress (ANC) was first to benefit from the first floor-crossing window period when a Democratic Alliance (DA) member crossed to the ANC in Kwazulu-Natal on Friday morning.
The SA Reserve Bank denied on Thursday its recent move to purchase US dollars was aimed at influencing the value of the rand.